"Dignity is everything" Isaiah Berlin

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"Dignity is everything" Isaiah Berlin

Post by one of those jerks » October 5th, 2009, 6:39 am

"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."

— Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty

"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."

— Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty

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"The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000."
"I suppose they will all want dignity," I said.
"I suppose," said O'Hare.
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